Backends

You need one of the two backends listed below for Simon to be functional.

SPHINX

Download the latest versions of SphinxBase, Pocketsphinx and SphinxTrain from the CMU SPHINX homepage and install them. It is likely, that your distribution also provides packages for SPHINX. If that is the case, it is usually preferable to install those instead of compiling SPHINX from source.

Backends

You need one of the two backends listed below for Simon to be functional.

SPHINX

Download the latest development versions of SphinxBase, Pocketsphinx and SphinxTrain from their SVN (you can find them on the CMU SPHINX homepage, the latest released versions 0.8 will not work) and install them. You need to rebuild Simon after you installed them.